Women and our magazines. We are a bountiful market and there are products tailored to what seem like our every whim. And yet so many magazines propagate stereotypes about beauty and body ideals and acceptable and normative behaviour. Two exhibitions at the Women's Library this year seek to explore the relationship that we have with our glossies.
Between the covers: Women's magazines and their readers recounts the history of women's magazines and how content has been changed according to the changing aspirations of the female population. Then there's Black in fashion: Have we turned the page? which looks at issues of race in print media - in particular the ways that non-white models are much less widely used and the reasons behind this.
The ideas brought up in these two exhibitions are close to our heart at Spank and we're really looking forward to getting down there and exercising our brains a bit.
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